What is a Data Scientist Worth? - KDnuggets

We recently put together a trilogy of articles with the insights of a few dozen experts in order to map out the key events of 2019, and to lay out predictions on where things are headed in 2020 (and likely beyond). And in what has become somewhat of a tradition, friend of KDnuggets Xavier Amatriain has once again written up his end-of-year retrospective of advances in AI/ML, which you can find here. What this article will do is take a snapshot of where we are in terms of data science and related salaries as we come to the end of another year. In order to find some single point of comparison, and try our best to find apples to compare to one another, we will be focusing on the role of a data scientist in the United States, but will also take a few related roles and a couple of additional countries into account further on. To get an idea, let's have a look at Payscale, which reports (most recently updated Oct 22, 2019) that the median data scientist salary in the US is $91,260, with a range of $62k - $138k (see Figure 1).